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PARTIC'ULAR, adjective [Low Latin particularis, from particula.] 1. Pertaining to a single person or thing; not general; as, this remark has a particular application. 2. Individual; noting or designating a single thing by way of distinction. Each plant has its particular nutriment. Most persons have a particular trait of character. He alludes to a particular person. 3. Noting some property or thing peculiar. Of this prince there is little particular memory. 4. Attentive to things single or distinct; minute. I have been particular in examining the reasons of this law. 5. Single; not general. 6. Odd; singular; having something that eminently distinguishes one from others. 7. Singularly nice in taste; as a man very particular in his diet or dress. 8. Special; more than ordinary. He has brought no particular news. 9. Containing a part only; as a particular estate, precedent to the estate in remainder. 10. Holding a particular estate; as a particular tenant. PARTIC'ULAR, noun A single instance; a single point. I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal. 1. A distinct, separate or minute part; as, he told me all the particulars of the story. 2. An individual; a private person. 3. Private interest; as, they apply their minds to those branches of public prayer, wherein their own particular is moved. [Not in use.] 4. Private character; state of an individual. For his particular I will receive him gladly. [Not in use.] 5. A minute detail of things singly enumerated. The reader has a particular of the books wherein this law was written. [Not in use.] In particular specially; peculiarly; distinctly. This, in particular happens to the lungs.